Hair-dressing appliance



R. s. M. SCH ROEDER HAIR DRESSING APPLIANCE.

APPLICATION FILED MAYBI, 192i- Patented 00a 25, 1921..

UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

HAIR-DRESSING APPLIANCE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 25, 1921.

Application filed May 31, 1921. Serial No. 473,579.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RUTH SOPHIA MARIA SCHROEDER, a citizen of Sweden,with an application for U. S. citizenship pending, residing at Chicago,Cook county, Illinois, have invented. certain new and usefulImprovements in Hair-Dressing Appliances, of which the following is aspecification.

Mv invention relates to toilet accessories and has particular referenceto marcelling or waving the hair. Its object is to provide a formingdevice on which the strands or looks of hair may be set in curls,spirals or helical formations arranged in a plurality of intersectingplanes, and together producing a pleasing wavy efiect that isdistinguished from ordinary hair curling and attaining that variety informations which has heretofore been accomplished more or lessexpensively with the aid of expert hair dressers. And the inventionconsists in the novel device hereinafter described in detail,illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and more particularly pointedout in the appended claims.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a front view of the upper portion of a womansfigure showing my invention in use to produce one of a number ofvarieties of formations.

Fig. 2 is a side view of my device in operative size and with its partsin inactive or normal positions.

Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the same parts in expanded andoperative adjustment, including friction coverings.

Fig. 4 is an edge view of the parts set as in Fig. 3.

In the several views 2 represents the device as a whole, which may bemade of any suitable material of the moderate degree of elasticityrequired for the purposes hereinafter shown, such as spring wire,celluloid and a variety of ornamental, non-corroding and non-rustingmaterials from which haircombs, and hair ornaments are made. Myimprovement is embodied in the form of substantially a cross with arms 3and 4t joined by an arm 5 at right angles thereto and a pair'of arms,levers, spring-clamps or grips 6 and 7, formed by making ten substantially right angle bends whereby the arms 3, 4: and 5 are madedouble, U-shaped or in the form of expansible and contraotible 100 s aswill appear by comparing Figs. 2 an 3. The first and the last bends-8and -9are caused to cross each other in normal position and form anangle, which when closed, as in Figs. 1, 3 and 4: has expanded the loops3, a and 5 and tightened them against the windings of hair thereupon,somewhat stretching the strands of hair in their curved condition sothat when the de vice is removed or released that condition will beretained or preserved.

The legs or arms 6 and 7 have their tips bent in opposite directions toform lugs 10 and 11 on which are mounted balls or enlargements 12 and 13which when crossed over each other together with the bends 10 and 11,form under the spring tension in the arms 6 and 7 a friction-grip holdor clasp adapted to hold the hair at the end of its windings. Toproduce, say, five alternating directions of curlings or windings thelatter may begin, for instance, on the arm 4, then be crossed overdiagonally to the arm 3, then after one or more windings on the latterbe crossed over diagonally, at right angles to the first diagonal, toand on the arm 5 and finally wound on one of the arms 6 or 7 before thecompanion arms are brought to form a grip to hold the ends of saidwindings. The variations made by crossing from one arm to another and bythe suggested diagonal crossings, may be'varied in an indefinite numberof ways, the general effect always being, however, to make frequentbreaks in the ordinary continuous curl strand. The latter may also bemade on the present device by confining the windings to the alined arms3 and l or 5 and 67. The parallel bars or runs of each of the arms 3, 4and 5 are shown as straight, but are not necessarily confined to thatsimple form, the arms being adapted for curved and laterally expandedparts thereof for the purpose of producing a still greater variety ofundulations.

In Figs. 3 and 4 the legs 6 and 7 are shown provided with frictioncoverings 14 and 15 to increase the friction-hold at the end of thewindings, or that part of the latter which are held between said legs 6and 7 in Fig. 1. The hair on the head of Fig. 1 is shown dressed withone of the varieties of wavy formations to be produced by the presentinvention. Large and small windings of straight curls in a single strandof curls will be produced and stretched or expanded by making thewindings only on the arm 5 and one of the arms 6 and 7, only the largerciroles or turns on the arm 5 being in the latter case expanded. Fig. 1shows, for the sake of greater clearness, only one diagonal crossoverinstead of the two diagonal cross-overs at right angles to each otherreferred to.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent.

1. In a device of the class described, the combination with anexpansible and contractible spring loop, of a pair of arms or leversnormally in angular relation to each other which when brought togetherexpand said loop, and means for holding together said arms or levers.

2. The combination with a plurality of expansible and contractible armsforming loops, of arms or levers inclined away from each other at theirjunction with said loops, said arms or levers when brought intosubstantially parallel relation expanding said loops, and means forholding said arms or levers in said relation.

3. The combination of a series of arms and levers forming substantiallya cross and made of spring material into the form of U-shaped orloop-shaped arms terminating in said levers in angular relation to eachother, and friction holding means von the ends of said levers forinterlocking said ends.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name. 7 a

' RUTH S. M. SCHROEDER.

